41.   The U.S. called on its major trading partners to show they will fully liberalize their telecommunications markets, and urged rapid progress in talks on the subject.

42.   The Washington talks come barely a week after he was sworn in as prime minister and are intended to dramatize his commitment to rapid progress toward political reconciliation.

43.   This represents a real deflation of the hope of rapid progress that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak voiced last fall.

44.   Unions want rapid progress in creating these part-time jobs, and employers have expressed a willingness to do just that.

45.   Very rapid progress.

46.   What Jackson does know is the Lakers have made rapid progress since he opened his first training camp with them in October.

47.   While many Southern California homeowners still struggle to rebuild, the ghost towns are showing surprisingly rapid progress, community leaders say.

48.   Yet this country has made rapid economic progress.

49.   Rapid recent planting progress sent corn and soybean futures down sharply Monday on the Chicago Board of Trade.

50.   Another said advances were minuscule Monday, after rapid progress late last week.